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The world is a happier place since 2007

The world is a happier place since 2007 The world is a happier place since 2007, at least according to a survey by Ipsos Global.  According to the survey, relationships are the thing that make people the happiest, particularly connections … Continue reading

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Love, happiness and words from my favorite writers

Love, happiness and words from my favorite writers Last week was an extremely long and stressful week; at least that is what I’m blaming my lack of inspiration and creativity on tonight.  So I turn tonight to some of the … Continue reading

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Happiness and Relationships

I found the following bouncing around the net for something interest to post tonight, it’s a really beautiful thought on relationships written by Elizabeth Reninger for About.com In my observation, very few and far between are those who enter relationships … Continue reading

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The Dalai Lama on Sympathetic Joy

To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others’ achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only … Continue reading

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The Happiness Countdown

The Happiness Countdown All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows … Continue reading

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Happiness and an Attitude Adjustment

Happiness and an Attitude Adjustment If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone … Continue reading

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Happiness and Love

Happiness and Love Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land Each week I look for inspiration throughout the week for my Monday … Continue reading

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Deng Ming-Dao on Initiative

On our search for happiness as in all things we must play our part, nothing comes to us just because it has come to our mind, wouldn’t that be wonderful.  We must work, we must struggle, we must persevere, not … Continue reading

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Friday morning wisdom from the Dalai Lama

There is a saying in Tibetan that “at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar.” The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come from wealth, but … Continue reading

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Happiness, reacting and emotional triggers

Happiness, reacting and emotional triggers The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, … Continue reading

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